Restaurant equipment
You always wanted to open a restaurant and wondered what you need to do it?
In this article you will find a list of the equipment you need to start a restaurant. Compactly edited for you.
The equipment of a restaurant is an important factor in the success of a catering business. The total package of kitchen equipment, kitchen furniture, bar utensils and other technical aids should be carefully planned to ensure optimal workflow, hygiene, quality and safety.
Kitchen
Kitchen appliances are the heart of any restaurant:
- Capacity: Your equipment should have sufficient capacity to prepare the desired quantity of food in the appropriate time and quality. Always start from the peak times.
- Energy efficiency: High electricity bills increase operating costs. Pay attention to energy efficiency classes, power connections and heat recovery systems.
- Hygiene: It has to be quick, your equipment should be easy to clean and disinfect in order to comply with hygienic standards. Look for smooth surfaces, rounded edges, removable parts and dishwasher compatibility.
- Safety: Saftey first! Everyone should care about preventing accidents and injuries. Pay attention to emergency stop, overheating protection and slip resistance.
You should not forget these kitchen utensils in any case:
- Stove: cooking, frying, braising and baking food. Different types of stoves: Gas stoves, electric stoves, induction stoves or combination stoves.
- Oven: baking, grilling or steaming food. Different types of ovens: Convection ovens, convection ovens or microwave ovens.
- Deep fryer: frying food in hot fat or oil. Different types of fryers: tabletop fryers, floor standing fryers or fat fryers.
- Refrigerator and freezer: storage of food at low temperatures. Different types of refrigerators and freezers: refrigerators with glass door, freezers or blast freezers.
- Dishwasher: cleaning dishes, cutlery and glasses. Different types of dishwashers: Hood dishwashers, push-through dishwashers or glassware dishwashers.
Furniture
Make the best use of the available space to provide enough work surface, storage space and freedom of movement.
- Material: The kitchen furniture should be made of a sturdy, durable and easy-to-clean material (stainless steel & plastic) that can withstand the stresses of the kitchen.
- Size: kitchen furniture should be adapted to the size of the kitchen and appliances. Modular systems can be combined flexibly.
- Functionality: the most important thing for kitchen furniture is practicality. Pay attention to: drawers, doors, shelves, hooks and casters.
The most common kitchen furniture includes:
- Work tables: work tables with drawers, work tables with backsplash or work tables with sink.
- Cabinets: wall cabinets, base cabinets or refrigerators and freezers.
- Shelves: wall shelves, standing shelves or serving trolleys.
The bar utensils
Depending on the concept, a bar can be a great addition for ambiance and sales, the restaurant.
- Quality: The bar utensils should be made of a high quality material (stainless steel & glass) that does not affect the taste and hygienic properties of the drinks.
- Variety: cocktail shakers, measuring cups, bar strainers, bottle openers, glasses and straws.
- Functionality: ice makers, dispensers, refrigerators and dishwashers.
The most common bar utensils include:
- Cocktail shaker: mixing alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. There are different types of cocktail shakers, such as Boston shaker, Cobbler shaker or French shaker.
- Measuring cup: measuring liquids for beverage preparation. There are different types of measuring cups, such as jigger, bar measure or measuring spoon.
- Bar strainers: Straining solid ingredients from the mixed drinks. There are different types of bar strainers, such as Hawthorne strainer, strainer or tea strainer.
- Bottle opener: opening bottles with crown corks or corks. There are different types of bottle openers, such as cap lifter, corkscrew or champagne tongs.
- Glasses: serving drinks. There are different types of glasses, such as long drink glasses, cocktail glasses or wine glasses.
- Straws: Drinking beverages. There are different types of straws, such as paper straws, plastic straws or stainless steel straws.
Other tools
Other tools are the devices for communication, organization and security in a restaurant.
- Cash register system: For inventory and personnel management, as well as payment acceptance, you need a cash register system that helps you keep track of finances and statistics of all areas.
- Online presence: Google Maps has become an indispensable search platform. Quickly look up opening hours or read reviews. Outside of the company's own homepage, this is also part of the public impact.
Funding:
Good advice is worth its weight in gold here. Flexvelop is therefore already the recommended payment and financing solution among many retailers and experts. Flexvelop itself started in the hospitality industry because we love the passion of the people who work here and our solution makes the most obvious sense here.
With Flexvelop as a financing and growth partner, restaurateurs therefore ensure that they can always exploit their own potential with the latest equipment in a carefree and flexible manner.
